West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-06-09
NEWS IN BRIEF

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the Canton, of Uri, Switzerland, yesterday
destroying two cottages and killing six per
sons
Grand Army men are indignant because
the Railroad trunk Line Association will
not grant them the one fare trip 20 the Sep
TENDER encampment, as other roads do for
the round trip
Sarah Jane Gunthcr, OF Warsaw, Ind, is
in Jail for throwing into the St. Joe river and
drowning her four-weeks-old ilegitiuato
child. She confessed tho crime. Her. father
is wealthy but has disinherited her
Tho seizure Of illicit manufactured cider
i brandy at Bridgeport, Conn, is followed bv
/ seizures Of the same article made i'm the
neighborhood. The article was concealed i'm
various places, some OF it being in a como
terry
Since her conviction Of murder in tho flrs.
degree Mrs. Cign rale, the New York muir
dcress has not slept for u moment. The calls
necessarily ON the Madonna and the whole
Tombs is filled with her cries. Sue is Becom
] ing insane
Esquire w. T. Ricketts,, n prominent citi-
zen of Owensboro, Ky, and a former county
official, was wayiaid IN the woods two miles
from town, dragged from his horse 10y Vcr
non Tatum, his son-in-law, beaten to nsensi-
bility and then cruelty stabbed. There was
a grudgo between the mon
1t is new estimated at the Pension ONCE
that the number of Mexican pension claims
will not exceed 10000 of which $1,000 arc
widows claims Two thousand two hundred
certificates have been issued 1t has been dc
cided to increase the force of the division hav.
ing these cases in charge, so that they may
be turned out at the rate Of 200 pcrdicm
Beulah Moore and her father have been oc-
quilted at Memphis OF the murder of w II
Allen, who was charged with the seduction OF
Beulah.
John Connolly, miner of Braccyillc H..
shot Mrs John Stoddard and killed her. then
shooting himself. After being put in jail he
cut his throat
Both Houses Of the Michigan Legislature
have adopted resolution to have the State
participate in the celebration of the first set
Element of the Old Northwest Territory, TO
be held at Marietta, o., in April, 1885,
The east-bound San Francisco and st.
Louis express train was stopped by four men,
with rifles, at n station seven miles from Fort
/ Worth, on Saturday morning, and the express
car robbed of s., 800.
There seems TO be a belief il certain circles
that the Stanley African expedition for the
relief Of Emin Pasha is really an expedition
for the seizure, for the benefit of England, OF
the North Central provinces which were an,
nexed to Egypt in 1874.
The fish and storeboat of Heavy Muer five
miles above the mouth of the Wabash river,
in Illinois, was caught in a whirlwind and
wrecked, drowning James Smith, 10 years OF
age; daughter of Henry Muer, aged 6 years
and child Of John Muer, aged l. year
Mrs. Wiieman, once convicted Of tho muir
der Of her husband at Little Valley, N. Y,
and sentenced to be hanged, was on second
trial acquitted.
| The detectives on the safe robbery of the
office of Treasurer Of Logan county, Arkan-
sas, have implicated Deputy County Treas
urer and four other young men, all well con-
I nected.
The bill to suppress "bucket shops" has pas
sed the Illinois Legislature, and only awaits
the Governors signature to become law.
Bucket-shop proprietors will contest it in the
courts
The case of Jacl, Hayes, who killed a man
named Miller in jefferson City, No. about
/ five years ago, and which went up to the
/ United States Supreme Court on n Constitu-
tional question, has been affirmed and the
State Supreme Court has fixed July g as the
d1te Of his execution
Martin Culver, patient at the county in.
sane asylum at DGnninS H., died yesterday
from blow inflicted by s. v Tccvison, am
other inmate. Theasylum is so crowded that
it is necessary 10 place two patients i'm each
apartment, and Culver and Tccyison rooneI
together
Chief Justice Mercur, Of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, died at the residence
OF his son, at Waliingford, Pa, from con
scstion Of the lungs
Il is reported that hidden treasure TO tho
value Of 81, 900, 900 pounds has been discovered
in the palace of a deceased Vizier, at RABBIT
Morocco. The Sultan, 10 is said, has cocGs-
Gated the treasure and is having it conveyed
to the Imperial Golfers
During a storm near Stringtown, Parnas
county, Texas, on Sunday evening tho Pee
bles family were aroused from their Stun
bcrs by terrific peal Of thunder md blind
ing flash oflishtnmg. Mrs. Pcchics was killed.
as also was an infant child which was In her
arms at tho time
About fifty houses were flooded at Olcrliu.
o., by the storm of Sunday Tho damage i,
estimated at $4,000 At GAINESVILLE ta, Biac.
Diamond Manufacturing Compauys vors,
were destroyed boy -htuiug, cousu. "a loss
81 $4,000 Lightning was mumady dr
structive at various points throughout tbc
State
Confederate Memorial Day was celebrated
with much spirit, though rain fou nearly all
day
Tho redemption OF trade dollars 10 date
amount 10 about s1OJ)O1O and Treasury
officials think that very few moro arc out
standing
John il. Fields farmer living near Hole
ma, KY, ON Sunday shot bis vife aud tw.
sons md then cut bis own throat st lo.
accounts old were aiU living. Jealousy and
financial embarrassment are named as cause.
for the crime
David Gosolin, German. who in October